More plastic than ever before has washed up on a beach in Kent this winter

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00:00 This winter we've had a particularly high frequency of storm surges.

00:05 So that's when we get a bulge on top of the sea due to low pressure systems and high winds and high tides.

00:11 And that's meant that we've seen an extraordinary amount of marine plastic getting washed up onto the beach.

00:19 At Peguab Bay, it gets funneled from the channel into this little corner of the coastline.

00:26 And we see an extraordinary amount of really small fragments of plastic.

00:31 And particularly, we get a lot of netting and dolly rope, which is a fine plastic fish net that hangs off the bottom of bottom trawling nets.

00:40 And of course, it will never get biodegraded. And so it's incredibly dangerous.

00:46 It can get caught around bird's feet, bird's beaks or get caught around a seal's neck or ingested by any kind of animal.

00:55 So really important that we clean off the beach

00:57 before it gets put back into the sea again.